Molecular signatures of alternative reproductive strategies in a facultatively social hover wasp.

ABSTRACT: Social insect reproductives and non-reproductives represent ideal models with which to understand the expression and regulation of alternative phenotypes. Most research in this area has focused on the developmental regulation of reproductive phenotypes in obligately social taxa such as honey bees, while relatively few studies have addressed the molecular correlates of reproductive differentiation in species in which the division of reproductive labour is established only in plastic dominance hierarchies. To address this knowledge gap, we generate the first genome for any stenogastrine wasp and analyse brain transcriptomic data for non-reproductives and reproductives of the facultatively social species Liostenogaster flavolineata, a representative of one of the simplest forms of social livi

SUBMITTER: Taylor BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953455 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature